Shrink the State. End the Fed. Balance the budget. Make a profit. Leave an inheritance.
Gary North
Immigrants are rioting in Sweden. Where are they from? Shhhh. They are “youths.” Can you be more specific? Shhhh. What are they rioting about? Shhhh. Does this have anything to do with religion? Shhhh. This is like flash mobs in urban America, where the rioters are described as “teenagers.” Yes, they surely are. Can you [...]
Continue reading →“A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism.” — Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848), opening sentence I bring good news. Marxism is really, truly dead. I figured that out in late 1991. The drunken stupor of the would-be counter-coup, anti-Yeltsin Communists in mid-August was the sign of [...]
Continue reading →The Eurogroup held a teleconference this evening to take stock of the situation in Cyprus. The Eurozone’s decision-making institution on the euro is an informal committee of finance ministers. The committee has no official name. It has no official power. It is not voted into office. In the Lisbon Treaty, which went into effect on [...]
Continue reading →A pair of 20-something young men were on tour in Greece. They took pictures on a Greek island. They have been arrested as spies. They are employees of a firm that produces video games. A recent game places the Greek island they were visiting in the middle of a war: Iran vs. the USA. The [...]
Continue reading →A police officer kicked a clearly pregnant woman in the abdomen. The woman filed a complaint. The police department says the offider was in the right. Here is a case of a bureaucratic reaction that is universal. But, if the days of the Internet, this reaction can backfire. No charges have been filed against the [...]
Continue reading →The power of a YouTube video should be obvious. The authorities fear exposure of their own illegal activities. They also fear public embarrassment. Why? Because this can cause voters to pressure town councils to impose an outside board to run the internal affairs of a bureaucracy. More than anything else, a bureaucracy faces budget cuts [...]
Continue reading →So, you think the U.S. Constitution guarantees due process of law. Well, what if it does? It’s an old document. Who cares what the voters’ original intent was? Not the Attorney General of the United States, certainly. He gave a prepared speech at Northwestern University Law School recently. In his speech, he made it clear [...]
Continue reading →The U.S. military has invented a heat ray. The military says this ray does not kill anyone. It does not injure anyone. It merely persuades the targeted victim to leave the area very fast. It is silent. You cannot see it. But you can feel it. It is called the Active Denial System. It works [...]
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